We look forward to seeing members (and others!) at the AAA meetings next week, and also at our spring conference in March in San Diego. Please spread the word to graduate students about the Dec. 1 deadline for the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize. Here is some more news:

Panel discussion: "Whatever happened to immigration reform? Crises, epidemics, and border (in)security." Panel discussion with Susan Coutin (UC Irvine), Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz (Loyola U Chicago), and Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers U). Panelists will present an informal conversation about the prospects of immigration reform, the work of critical and engaged anthropologists on the subject of immigration, and the current political and social realities facing undocumented people in the United States. (Thank you to AES councilor Daniel Goldstein for organizing and moderating this panel.)

AES will host 56 panels, 7 of which are invited. Also, please check out our 5 workshops generated by and for graduate students. While the registration deadline has passed, stay up on AES graduate student events by contacting Andrew Hernann, our Graduate Student Representative.

Of the many special events, be sure to catch the Visual Anthropology Workshop, with documentary filmmaker and anthropologist Robert Lemelson (UCLA). Advance registration required (details forthcoming on the AES website). Ethnographic film and video can convey the lives of the people we study in powerful, evocative and moving ways. With new highly portable cameras and editing software, doing visual anthropology is easier than ever. During the 2015 AES meetings in San Diego, California, participants in our visual anthropology workshop will get hands-on advice about planning, shooting, and editing ethnographic footage to convey meaningful anthropological perspectives to a wide audience.

Graduate Student Workshops at the Spring Conference

So far we have lined up three student workshops for the spring AES conference in San Diego. Julia Elyachar (UC Irvine) will lead a workshop on debt and emergence. Gaston Gordillo (U British Columbia) will lead one on emergent spaces. A third workshop will be led by Angelique Haugerud (AE and Rutgers U) and Rebecca Tolen (Indiana U Press) (and possibly others) on publishing, and is for graduate students as well as early-career faculty. Details on all these workshops TBA.

American Ethnologist News

Coming in the February 2015 issue: Michael Herzfeld on power, invisibility, and the moral imperative of anthropology; Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa on Ferguson, Missouri and the racial politics of social media; Tobias Rees on the neurological human; and more! Visithttp://www.americanethnologist.org.